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  1. Re:change is a comin' on U.C. System and Springer Agree To CC-Licensed Journal Articles · · Score: 1

    It's a major pain in the butt to go through my university library to track down the article, when I'm not even sure if it's useful yet. So yeah, open access is a good thing.

    That's right! In my day, going to the library to track down an article was called research.

  2. Absolutely, positively, on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 5, Funny

    There will be no black holes, well except for very tiny ones that will wink out of existence in mere nanoseconds. Certainly no more than a couple of microseconds. At most a second. Likely tops of a minute. Absolutely can't be more than seven minutes ...

  3. Overhyped on Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The whole story about Apple encouraging anti-virus software was severely over-hyped anyway. There are malicious bits out there that will damage your system if you do something stupid, like install a Trojan or run an untrusted Office macro. OS X is still quite secure out-of-the-box and *this* is where it is most different to Microsoft's offerings.

  4. Re:explanations? on Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube · · Score: 1

    Haha. Your powers of observation are astounding. As is your ability to ask the question here instead of Google.

  5. A terrible decision on Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube · · Score: 5, Funny

    YouTube will be inundated with spam.

  6. Re:Advantages to Censorship on Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials · · Score: 1

    As an Australian who fervently opposes Fuehrer Rudd's censorship bill...

    There, fixed that for you ;)

    There, fixed that for you. Unless you actually meant "for", then my bad.

  7. Re:First post on Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod · · Score: 1

    I bought an 8gig Sansa (w/MicroSD for another 4gig) for 59 dollars. The similar iPod nano is at least $100 more.

    That's not "tens of dollars".

    Yes it is. It seems to be about 4 or 5 "tens of dollars".

  8. *Increasingly* over-packed?! on In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress · · Score: 1

    What the?! I guess previously they were only a little over-packed -- say 5 or 6 people standing in the aisles -- but I guess now they are really over-packed with upwards of 20 or 30 taking up the aisles and any free overheard storage space.

  9. Re:Exactly the right approach. on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 1

    Physicists have spent 50+ years trying to confine and stabilize plasmas with negligible progress and with a cost of many billions (or is it trillions over 50 years). Stability, confinement, and plasma just don't seem to go together. Progress has not been negligible. See Figure 5 at http://www.scidacreview.org/0801/html/fusion.html
    I agree that fusion is an expensive and difficult path.
  10. err Gentoo? on Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use Gentoo, you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:Any history buffs out there? on Computers May Thwart 2010 Census · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah punched cards seem to have worked well for Florida ...

  12. Re:WTF??!? on First Nations Want Cellphone Revenue · · Score: 1

    This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
    Solution: build giant Faraday cages around their land. No cellphone signal inside, no problem.
    Yeah, because that doesn't sound ridiculous at all ...
  13. Re:Gentoo never was "what it used to be" on Is Gentoo in crisis? · · Score: 1

    What's a Debian package?

  14. If all else fails, read the instructions. on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Just wanted you to know that your article on nuclear fusion reactors aroused my interest. However, when I put my reactor into operation, it caught fire, levelled the neighbourhood, stained my carpet, and pissed me off."

    Perhaps if you can't follow all the instructions there are some things you really shouldn't be doing.

  15. Re:Never overestimate the loser potential of Anora on Best (and Worst) High-Def Discs of 2006 · · Score: 1

    A good, comprehensive review site, that includes "how pretty this version is", is http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/ -- at least for Region 4 DVDs.

  16. I believe Jon Stewart on Mainstream Media To Start "Crowdsourcing" · · Score: 1

    already covered this phenomenon as CNN tries their hand at it.

  17. Re:want one^h^h^h 1000 on Linux Powers Lilliputian PCs · · Score: 1
    All done by a company of 26 ...
    Actually, according to the article, it is a company of 6 people with 26 products. So even better!
  18. Re:Alanis Morissette flashback . . . on Ionic Cooling For Your Computer · · Score: 1

    And I, for a second, thought it said "iconic cooling ..." And I thought of Marilyn Monroe with a palm leaf fan... Hey I could have thought of worse things!

  19. Re:Altitude? Is this a flying car? on Computer Designed Car Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1
    Altitude? Altitude? ... Or, perhaps they mean elevation?
    What's the difference?

    altitude
    n 1: elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface;
    -- From WordNet (r) 2.0

  20. Gruesome Advertisements! on Digital Replicas May Change Games and Film · · Score: 1
    The technology can even ... create exact replicas of long-dead historical figures.
    OK but since you apparently need to scan in the body, don't be surprised when little Janey screams as Abraham Lincoln endorses some insurance company. :D
  21. Re:Going after the offenders on BPI Requests ISPs Suspend Suspected Filesharers · · Score: 1
    Offender is a technical legal term describing someone who has been convicted of an offence.
    My apologies for not including the full technical legal term.

    It remains to be seen how many 6 year olds, dead people and dogs are being included in this particular trawl.
    Doesn't that completely depend on how many 6 year olds, dead people and dogs are on the ISP's books? I thought "they" only had IP numbers.

    And next time my dog is sharing the internet connection! I don't care, even if he uses those puppy dog eyes on me.

  22. Going after the offenders on BPI Requests ISPs Suspend Suspected Filesharers · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Everytime a story appears about the music or movie industry coming up with some draconian method[1] for protecting their copyright (illegal to even own circumvention devices, DRM, DMCA, etc etc) -- wherein it appears as though they assume all people are criminals unless they happen to have been proven innocent -- I usually think, 'Why don't they go after the offenders and leave the rest of us be?'

    Now, in this case, they do appear to be going after the offenders and so good luck to them. I believe they do have a right to protect their copyright but I don't believe it should be at the expense of everyone, just those who are offending.

    [1] Which (as a side "benefit") means you often cannot use your own legally purchased media in legally/morally accepted ways.

  23. Back in the QNX day ... on Damn Small Linux Not So Small · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why I remember the QNX demo floppy disk (all 1.44MB) packing the OS (posix compliant), GUI, PPP or networking, Web browser, file browser, and several demo applications including web server, vector graphics program and a text editor. Pffft kids today ...

  24. In other news ... on Mobile Phones and Lightning a Lethal Mix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't hold up umbrellas, large metal spikes or TV antennae. Jury is still out on iPods and tin foil hats maybe OK.

  25. Save battery = save DoS on Researchers Hack Wi-Fi driver to Breach Laptop · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "The victim would not even need to connect to a network for the attack to work", he said.

    Presumably you must still have WiFi turned on though. To save battery life, mine is usually off unless I'm connected.